Nothing Is Wrong and Here Is Why: Essays (Petri Alexandra)(Paperback)

Nothing Is Wrong and Here Is Why: Essays (Petri Alexandra)(Paperback)

In Nothing Is Wrong and Here Is Why, acclaimed Washington Post satirist Alexandra Petri offers perfectly logical, reassuring reasons for everything that has happened in recent American politics that will in no way unsettle your worldview. In essays both new and adapted from her viral columns, Petri

Nothing Is Wrong and Here Is Why: Essays (Petri Alexandra)(Pevná vazba)

In Nothing Is Wrong and Here Is Why, acclaimed Washington Post satirist Alexandra Petri offers perfectly logical, reassuring reasons for everything that has happened in recent American politics that will in no way unsettle your worldview.In essays both new and adapted from her viral Washington Post

Sex Myth - Why Everything We're Told is Wrong (Magnanti Brooke)(Paperback / softback)

Why everything the media tells us about sex is wrong

Accidental Woman (Coe Jonathan)(Paperback / softback)

For Maria, nothing is certain. Her life is a chain of accidents. Friendship passes her by, and she's unimpressed by the devoted Ronny and his endless proposals of marriage. Maria lives in a world of her own - yet not of her own making. Stumbling through university, work, marriage and motherhood,

The Field Campaigns of Alexander the Great (English Stephen)(Paperback)

'This is an excellent conclusion to a very useful series, and helps to explain why Alexander was so successful against so many different opponents.' -- History of WarAlexander the Great is one of the most famous men in history, and many believe he was the greatest military genius of all time

A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather Than Nothing (Krauss Lawrence M.)(Paperback)

Bestselling author and acclaimed physicist Lawrence Krauss offers a paradigm-shifting view of how everything that exists came to be in the first place.'Where did the universe come from? What was there before it? What will the future bring? And finally, why is there something rather than

A Generation Abandoned: Why 'Whatever' Is Not Enough (Beaulieu Peter D.)(Paperback)

The Best American Essays of the Century (Oates Joyce Carol)(Paperback)

This singular collection is nothing less than a political, spiritual, and intensely personal record of America's tumultuous modern age, as experienced by our foremost critics, commentators, activists, and artists. Joyce Carol Oates has collected a group of works that are both intimate and

The Winter Folly (Taylor Lulu)(Paperback)

It is 1965 and young Alexandra Crewe obediently marries the man her father has selected for her. But very soon both she and her husband Laurence realize that their marriage is a disaster. When real love finds Alexandra, she is powerless to resist. Her home becomes Fort Stirling, a beautiful Dorset

Paradise (Kennedy A.L.)(Paperback / softback)

Almost forty and with nothing to show for it, Hannah Luckraft is starting to realise that her lifestyle is not sustainable. From Scotland to Dublin, from London to Montreal, to Budapest and onwards, Hannah travels in search of the ultimate altered state - her

Authentic Movement: Essays by Mary Starks Whitehouse, Janet Adler and Joan Chodorow (Lovell Suzanne)(Paperback)

Patrizia Pallaro's second volume of essays on Authentic Movement, eight years after her first, is a tour de force. It is indeed an extraordinary array of papers, as Pallaro puts it, and an immensely rich, moving and highly readable sweep through the landscapes of Authentic Movement, this form of

Art Objects - Essays on Ecstasy and Effrontery (Winterson Jeanette)(Paperback / softback)

Winterson's own passionate vision of art is presented here, provocatively and personally, in pieces on Modernism, autobiography, style, painting, the future of fiction, in two essays on Virginia Woolf, and more intimately in pieces where she describes her relationship to her work and the books that

Why Mummy's Sloshed - The Bigger the Kids, the Bigger the Drink (Sims Gill)(Paperback / softback)

No.1 bestselling author Gill Sims is back with her eagerly awaited fourth and final Why Mummy novel. I just wanted them to stop wittering at me, eat vegetables without complaining, let me go to the loo in peace and learn to make a decent gin and tonic. Mummy has been a wife and mother for so

The Dream (Zola Emile)(Paperback)

Is it wrong to love whatever is beautiful and rich? I love it precisely because it is beautiful, because it is rich - because, I think, it brings joy to my heart. . . On Christmas day, in the flurry of a snow storm, the Huberts discover a ragged nine year old girl sheltering under the neighbouring

Nothing Ever Happens Here (Hagger-Holt Sarah)(Paperback / softback)

Izzy's family is under the spotlight when her dad comes out as Danielle, a trans woman. Izzy is terrified her family will be torn apart. Will she lose her dad? Will her parents break up? And what will people at school say? Izzy's always been shy, but now all eyes are on her. Can she face her fears,

Why We Fight: Essays on Fascism, Resistance, and Surviving the Apocalypse (Burley Shane)(Paperback)

'Burley's meticulously observed, fluidly written collection is a must-read for anyone interested in the far-right's evolution during the Trump era, and its opposition. A collection that delves into the howling abyss and emerges with aplomb.' --Talia Lavin, Culture Warlords: My Journey Into the Dark

And Her Soul Out of Nothing, 1997 (Davis Olena Kalytiak)(Paperback)

Both contemporary and other-worldly, Davis's lyrical poetry is a fearless expression of the spirit which defines the very essence of our

Pretentiousness: Why it Matters (Fox Dan)(Paperback / softback)

What is pretentiousness? Why are we afraid of it? And more controversially: why is it vital to a thriving culture? Drawing on the author's own experiences growing up and working at the more radical edges of the arts, this book is a timely defence of pretentiousness as a necessity for innovation and

Isadora Moon Goes Camping (Muncaster Harriet)(Paperback / softback)

Isadora Moon is special because she is different. Her mum is a fairy and her dad is a vampire and Isadora is a bit of both. So when they all go camping at the seaside some things might happen that are not quite normal

Isadora Moon Goes to School (Muncaster Harriet)(Paperback / softback)

Isadora Moon is special because she is different. Her mum is a fairy and her dad is a vampire and she is a bit of both. So when it's time for Isadora to start school she's not sure where she belongs - vampire school or fairy

Isadora Moon Has a Birthday (Muncaster Harriet)(Paperback / softback)

Isadora Moon is special because she is different. Her mum is a fairy and her dad is a vampire and Isadora is a bit of both. It's Isadora's birthday, and she is very excited about having a birthday party, just like her friends have! But with her mum and dad in charge, things might not quite turn out

Mirabelle Has a Bad Day (Muncaster Harriet)(Paperback / softback)

Mirabelle is having a BAD DAY! Everything seems to be going wrong, and when her brother eats the last chocolate biscuit, Mirabelle finally loses her temper, with dramatic consequences! Will Mirabelle be able to turn her bad day

Readings: Essays and Literary Entertainments (Dirda Michael)(Paperback)

Intimate, humorous, and insightful, Readings is a collection of classic essays and reviews by Michael Dirda, book critic of the Washington Post and winner of the 1993 Pulitzer Prize for criticism. From a first reading of Beckett and Faulkner at the feet of an inspirational high-school English

Doing Nothing (Horacek Petr)(Paperback)

The frog is sitting at the bottom of the pond, doing nothing. But other animals keep coming after him and he has to hop away Follow the frog as he hops around the pond in his search for a bit of peace in this wonderfully illustrated book by Petr Horacek. Yellow/Band 3 books offer varied sentence